Written answers
Thursday, 9 May 2013
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Ministerial Appointments
9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has proceeded to seek expressions of interest from interested persons or nominations of specific persons who would be prepared to...
- Children in Care
10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in residential general care who now have a written care plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21850/13]
- Child Protection Issues
12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her reaction to and the steps that will be taken to address both the historic failures and the contemporary deficiencies highlighted in the...
- Sunbed Usage
13. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she or her Department have engaged directly with the Department of Health to ensure that legislation currently being drafted on the issue...
- Early Childhood Education
14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will introduce higher standards of qualification in early care and education services; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Child Care Services Provision
15. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will amend the Child Care Act of 1991 to ensure the regulation of all paid childminders; and if she will make a statement on the...
- After-School Support Services
16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a progress on the new after-school childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21837/13]
- Youth Services
18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the priority she is giving to the frontline workers in Clondalkin and Lucan Youth Services, Dublin; if she will outline the impact the...
- Aftercare Services
19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the structures and support mechanisms that can be provided to young persons who leave State care where there is no family support. [21730/13]
- Children in Care
21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to help reverse the increase of deaths by suicide of children in care, children known to the Health Service...
- Internet Safety Issues
22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action her Department will take to help young persons counter the effects of websites that encourage harmful and unhealthy behaviour,...
- Child Care Services Provision
24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reporting protocols in place regarding children in high support units who engage in anti-social behaviour in off-site settings and more...
- Asylum Seeker Accommodation
25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the suitability of direct provision centres for child and family accommodation of asylum seekers; if she has urged the...
- Early Childhood Education
28. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is putting in place to enable children with special needs access creche and pre-school care; and if she will make a...
- Domestic Adoptions
29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of domestic births placed for adoption in each of the past three years, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if she will make a statement on...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the signed agreement with Vietnam regarding inter-country adoptions came into operational effect before the end of April 2013 as...
- Children in Care
31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in care who now have an allocated social worker; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21854/13]
- Child Care Services Provision
32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the implications for her Department’s planning for the future of the projections contained in the new study from the Central...
- Ministerial Dialogue
33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she continues to have dialogue with the various stakeholders in relation to issues affecting the welfare, well-being and...
- Adoption Legislation
34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the delay in introducing the Adoption (Tracing and Information) Bill; and the steps being taken to protect birth/adoption...
- Illegal Adoptions
35. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in view of the recent apology given by the Australian Prime Minister to the victims of illegal adoptions carried out in that country in...
- Bullying of Children
36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and or her Department has undertaken studies into the extent of the various forms of bullying affecting young...
- Youth Services
37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to protect frontline youth services in view of the funding cuts experienced by the sector; and if she will make a...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- European Security Strategy
38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a review of the European Security Strategy will be taking place in the near future; if he will outline Ireland's...
- Diplomatic Representation
39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of the discussions with New Hampshire State officials that the Embassy of Ireland in Washington had on their...
- Ministerial Expenditure
40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his...
- Department of Finance
- Banking Sector Issues
41. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact on the small and medium enterprises sector in changes to bank changes including interest rates changes, over the past two years; and the steps taken...
- Property Taxation Application
42. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21939/13]
- Mortgage Repayments Issues
43. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) by the Irish Brokers' Association on debt forgiveness. [22057/13]
- Excise Duties Yield
44. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown in excise returns by category and by month from January 2011 to April 2013. [21915/13]
- IBRC Liquidation
46. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 30 April 2013, if he will confirm, if he is entitled to instruct the Special Liquidator KPMG or the independent...
- NAMA Bonds
47. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.77 of 24 April 2013, if he will confirm that the National Assets Management Agency issued senior bonds totalling...
- IBRC Liquidation
50. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 19 February 2013, if he will provide an update on the composition and ownership structure of the Irish Bank...
- Government Bonds
51. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 30 April 2013, the reason the Central Bank of Ireland purchased the 2025 Irish government bond which was retained...
- IBRC Liquidation
52. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 30 of April 2013, if he will confirm that the total unguaranteed liabilities of the Irish Bank Resolution...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
53. To ask the Minister for Finance the way deferral of local property tax and the subsequent 4% charge will be of any benefit to those qualifying persons already in debt distress; and if he will...
- Tax Yield
54. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will advise on the revenue collected in 2010, 2011 and 2012 from capital gains tax; the prospective collection will be in 2013; and if he will make a...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service Reports
55. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Money Advice and Budgeting Service report outlining its concerns that split mortgages will not be a solution for the bulk of homeowners in...
- State Banking Sector
56. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to interest rate increases other than those linked to ECB movements of financial institutions substantially owned by the State; his...
- Fuel Rebate Scheme
57. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria that hauliers will have to adhere to in order to be eligible for the essential fuel rebate due to come into effect on 1 July 2013; and if he will...
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
58. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 16 April 2013, if he will confirm that his Department did not calculate the specific reduction of GDP growth...
- State Banking Sector Regulation
59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the total nominal value of assets in the Asset Management Unit of Permanent TSB; if he will provide a category of the breakdown of these...
- Central Bank of Ireland Issues
61. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Central Bank of Ireland for borrowing unused capacity from counterparts in the 17-nation currency bloc relating to ANFA assets to ensure that...
- IBRC Liquidation
62. To ask the Minister for Finance if the total fees charged by KPMG for the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation shall be published on an annual basis as they would be if it were a...
- Tax Reliefs Application
65. To ask the Minister for Finance when SARP became operational; if any returns were made retrospectively for SARP in respect of 2011; if so, the number of people and the amounts involved; the...
- Tax Yield
67. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 30 April 2013, in which he said that the Revenue Commissioners could not estimate the amount that would be raised...
- Tax Credits
69. To ask the Minister for Finance the current tax credit for rent relief; if it is being phased out and if so by when; and the cost of the tax relief in a full year at its current amount and at...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that landlords can write the local property tax off against rent for tax purposes; and the estimated cost of this to the Exchequer. [22002/13]
- VAT Rates Exemptions
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason Betfair is not paying tax here; and the reason VAT is not being applied to the company. [22004/13]
- Tax Exemptions
72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the sporting bodies that currently have CGT exemptions. [22005/13]
- Capital Allowances
73. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer by reducing the energy efficiency capital allowances from 100% to 50%; and the conditions applicable to...
- Tax Credits
74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered modernising the base year for R&D tax reliefs. [22008/13]
- Tax Collection
75. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies and persons that were audited for non-payment or under-payment of tax in the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, by year; the total amount...
- Tax Reliefs Cost
76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown by individual category of flat rate expenses; and their total cost to the Exchequer in tax reliefs in the last available tax...
- Census of Population Statistics
77. To ask the Minister for Finance the information obtained by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to assist in the identification of households and persons in respect of the local...
- Ministerial Expenditure
78. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department for the period 2007 to...
- Duty Free Sales
79. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT applies to products os sale in duty free areas in Irish airports; the taxation and regulations that apply in these areas; and if he will make a...
- Mortgage Resolution Processes
80. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to support variable rate mortgage holders in relation to engagement with banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22098/13]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain the position that many students at Athlone Institute of Technology are now facing due to ongoing problems with the Student...
- Departmental Funding
83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding made available to the Irish Research Council from 2007 to present; the funding made available during the same period to the Irish...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a Student Universal Support Ireland grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- State Examinations Issues
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the numbers, if any, of retired teachers who have been successful in the recent recruitment process for appointment for...
- School Staffing
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review an application for supplementary redeployment panel by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [21958/13]
- Further Education and Training Programmes Provision
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding education training. [21975/13]
- Teaching Qualifications
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the findings of the International Review Panel on Initial Education and the recommendations it makes for reform of the current system...
- Ministerial Expenditure
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department for the...
- School Staffing
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Galway is due to lose a teacher; the options open to management and parents to retain this...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that exist for secondary schools to provide scribes and readers for students who need them for in house school exams; if he will...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Child Care Services Provision
95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will arrange to expedite theed removal of the telecommunications mast at the Old Finglas Garda Station, Dublin, in view of the fact...
- Garda Stations Closures
96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will look favourably on a business plan which proposes that a community use be established for the Garda Barracks in an area...
- Ministerial Appointments
97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he has taken to ensure that all State boards have at least 40% of each gender [21969/13]
- Public Sector Staff Issues
98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of principal officers within the civil service that are women. [21971/13]
- Public Sector Staff Remuneration
100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to proceed with legislative cuts to public sector pay implemented from 1 July 2013. [21973/13]
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the possible legal difficulties or obstacles to the sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte; in...
- Ministerial Expenditure
102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department...
- Public Park Access
103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a copy of the bylaws for the Phoenix Park, Dublin, are available to the public; if he will ensure that those bylaws and any other...
- Public Sector Pensions Legislation
104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if in the proposed public sector pensions reduction legislation a specific amendment will be included to exclude pension benefits...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Employment Rights Issues
105. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the protections that are in place to ensure that au pairs are not exploited in work; and if he will identify the relevant sections of...
- Banking Operations
108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he raised the adverse impact of changes to cash handling and the additional costs associated on small and medium enterprises when...
- Work Permit Applications
109. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding an application for a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Ministerial Expenditure
110. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department...
- Department of Social Protection
- Tax Code
111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current status of proprietary directors in relation to income tax, PRSI and so on; the amount that would be raised for the Exchequer if PRSI was...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service Funding
112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that the funding made available for the operation of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service offices network throughout the...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on appeal against the disallowance of disability benefit claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17;...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason financial brokers are excluded from the Mortgage Advisory Services she has announced. [21907/13]
- Invalidity Pension Applications
117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of numbers of persons who applied for invalidity pension in County Clare for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012; the numbers...
- Fuel Allowance Payments
118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans, due to the cold weather, to extend the free fuel allowance to the end of April 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for invalidly pension now under appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be expedited and approved....
- Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that at present a person in receipt of rent supplement is able to not pay the rent to their landlord,...
- Ministerial Expenditure
124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in her Department for the...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she disclose the full details of the web traffic for the Citizens Information Board's website keepingyourhome.ie, detailing unique visitors,...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which rental accommodation exists to meet the requirements of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Pension Provisions
129. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which means test applies to applicants for old age pension and noncontributory old age pension; the extent to which the value of...
- Respite Care Grant Applications
130. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a respite grant is payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22117/13]
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when arrears for carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Ministerial Expenditure
132. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Broadband Services Provision
133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the plans there are for broadband roll out specifically for the Billinter/Bective area south east of Navan and all other...
- Renewable Energy Incentives
134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there are any plans to include solar power in the REFIT3 tariffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21932/13]
- Ministerial Expenditure
135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in...
- Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Expenditure
136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will allow a school (details supplied) in County Galway to credit the surplus energy that is generated by their...
- Postcode Implementation
137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update in the implementation of postcodes here; when he expects this to be phased in; and if he...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection
138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if notices for non principal private residence charges will be issued for 2013 as in previous years. [21895/13]
- Foreshore Licences Applications
139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for delays with an application for a foreshore licence (details supplied) in County Cork. [21914/13]
- Local Authority Housing
140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the local authorities if any that have part five incomes on deposit which were taken in lieu of houses; the amount by...
- EU Directives
141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding EU Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM (Nuclear Waste), Under Article 6 (3) describing financing of Competent...
- Magdalen Laundries Issues
142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 941 and 942 of 16 April 2013, the steps being taken to ensure that there is access...
- Local Authority Staff
143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of city and county managers that are women. [21970/13]
- Register of Electors Issues
144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 1 May 2013, if, in accordance with electoral law, a local authority must...
- Ministerial Expenditure
145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in...
- EU Funding
146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Fingal County Council has applied for EU Interreg funding, through his Department, for environment and heat management...
- Local Authority Housing Application Numbers
147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons and families here waiting for one, two and three bed accommodation on county and county borough...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new social housing homes being provided in 2013 throughout each of the county and county borough local...
- Constitutional Convention
152. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a decision has been reached on holding a referendum on reducing the voting age to 16 following the Constitutional...
- Local Authority Housing
153. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing offers in each of the councils that were refused in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Fuel Laundering
155. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Criminal Assets Bureau will start to seize lands where green diesel is being washed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21964/13]
- Firearms Licences
156. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form, the number of new firearms' licences issued on a county-by-county and year-by-year basis from 2007 to...
- Deportation Orders
157. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will reconsider the recently issued deportation order against a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7;; and if he will make a statement on...
- Naturalisation Applications
158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to update Garda National Immigration Bureau Card which is due to expire on 13 June 2013 in the case a...
- Auctioneering Licences
159. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with reference to the licensing of auctioneers who operate in livestock marts, if he will give due consideration to marts in Gaeltacht regions;...
- Courts Service Issues
160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider increasing and updating scale costs for District Court actions in view of the increase in the jurisdiction of the District...
- Proposed Legislation
161. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider increasing jurisdiction of District Court to €20,000 bearing in mind that the average value of an award for motor...
- Road Traffic Legislation
162. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will implement the banning of HGVs on Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9, between 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. which are school peak...
- Garda Investigations
163. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the delay of the cold case file given to the Garda Commissioner on 11 March in relation to the Fr. Niall Molloy...
- Legal Aid Applications
164. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 regarding legal support. [22018/13]
- Ministerial Expenditure
165. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department for the...
- Road Traffic Offences
166. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed penalty notices for drivers holding a mobile phone while driving that were issued in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013....
- Anti-Social Behaviour
167. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request an Gardaí Síochána to give additional attention to an area (details supplied) in Dublin 13, particularly at the...
- Judicial Appointments
168. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he envisages the expansion in the number of members of the judiciary due to the set-up of the Court of Appeal, should it pass a referendum;...
- Prison Visiting Committees Issues
169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 2 May 2013, if he intends to seek public expressions of interest for appointment, as part of the...
- Appointments to State Boards
170. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to his announcement of 16 April 2013the names of fourteen persons who are to serve as members of the board of the Equality Authority in...
- Garda Vetting Applications
171. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received a Garda clearance certificate in view of the fact that they are not in...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Recruitment
172. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on when Army Recruitment will commence in the coming year. [21900/13]
- Ministerial Expenditure
173. To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department for the period 2007 to...
- European Defence Agency
174. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline Ireland's contribution financially to the European Defence Agency since its inception; if any staff from his Department or the Irish...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Schemes Payments
175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce an appropriate compensation scheme for farmers whose herds are affected with BVD; and if he will make a...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payment of an agri-environment scheme 1 application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Departmental Staff Redeployment
177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 502 of 12 March 2013 (details supplied), the number who were seconded to both the Irish Horse...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri-environment option scheme appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
- Freedom of Information Requests
179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the area aid claim that was made in respect of lands (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments in respect of a single farm payment and disadvantaged area payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County...
- Ministerial Expenditure
181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his...
- Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will claify the position regarding single farm payment entitlements (details supplied) [22058/13]
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received payment in respect of the agri-environment scheme; when...
- Afforestation Programme
184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares of forestry that have been approved for planting in 2013; and the number that were approved in 2012; and if he...
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the proposed sale of Coillte's harvesting rights; and if he will make a...
- Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in recent weeks on the trilogue/ordinary legislative procedures discussions regarding the deal reached at council...
- Agriculture Schemes Penalties
187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether many single farm payment penalties might not actually be lawful as inspectors might have exceeded their...
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
188. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the selling off of Coillte (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22114/13]
- Solidarity Fund
189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered an application under the EU solidarity fund to address some of the costs being incurred by farmers during the...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child Care Services Provision
190. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is putting in place to deal with a projected increase in the young population, under 14 years, of up to 100,000 by 2012;...
- Employment Rights Issues
191. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to concerns about exploitation in the au pair industry arising from the lack of a regulatory framework...
- Ministerial Expenditure
192. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in her Department for...
- Youth Services
193. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has had discussions with providers of youth support services throughout the country with a view to targeting areas...
- Child Protection Services
194. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which incidents of physical, psychological or other forms of child abuse have been notified to her Department in each of the...
- Child Protection Issues
196. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has adequate resources available to her Department in line with requirements and responsibilities arising from...
- Child Poverty
197. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department has been made aware of youth poverty; her strategy to address any such issues; and if she will make a...
- Juvenile Offenders
200. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department expects to examine issues surrounding juvenile offenders with particular reference to identifying the...
- Mental Health Services Provision
201. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she continues to liaise with health service provides, youth organisations and educationalists with particular reference...
- Youth Unemployment Measures
202. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and or her Department has directly or in conjunction with other Departments managed to focus on the issue of youth...
- Child Abuse
203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she intends to enhance the procedures to ensure a rapid response to reports and or suspicions of child abuse; if she...
- Bullying in Schools
204. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline her progress within her Ministerial remit on combatting incidences of bullying amongst young persons; in particular, if...
- Departmental Funding
205. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she outline the funding being currently provided to all Youth Work projects in County Kildare for each of the past three years; if she...
- Department of Health
- National Lottery Funding Disbursement
206. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21925/13]
- Eating Disorders
207. To ask the Minister for Health if he will help tackle an issue regarding eating disorders (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22066/13]
- Health Insurance Cost
208. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent announcement regarding further increases in the private health insurance market; if this will make it impossible for already...
- Mobility Allowance Scheme
209. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the progress made on providing for the needs of those currently in receipt of the mobility allowance when the current scheme will expire [21897/13]
- HSE Funding
210. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the decision taken by the Health Service Executive to either wholly or partly stop the issue of a research grant provided by his Department to the...
- Accident and Emergency Services Provision
214. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service has signed off on a national transfer policy and if so, the date it was signed. [21946/13]
- Speech and Language Therapy
217. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in speech therapy in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Carlow. [21962/13]
- Home Help Service Provision
218. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 702 of 16 April 2013 (details supplied) his views on the matter. [21965/13]
- Health Information and Quality Authority Issues
219. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to ensure permanent advocacy for women in institutionalised settings in their places of residence in view of the 2010 Health Information and...
- General Medical Services Scheme Administration
220. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons treatment for a person (details supplied) in County Louth, who suffers from a rare debilitating condition, has had their request for the treatment...
- Health Screening Programmes
221. To ask the Minister for Health the locations in which 24/7 stroke units currently operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21996/13]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
222. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form per Department in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, the current waiting times for public patients; the number of...
- Ambulance Service Provision
223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on ambulance services in Drogheda, County Louth; if any decision has been taken to reduce the number of ambulances available to...
- Tobacco Control Measures
224. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the potential negative impact upon legitimate manufacturing jobs in a tobacco company in Mullingar, County Westmeath; the proposed EU tobacco laws...
- Patient Transport Provision
225. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance available towards the cost of transport to and from hospital appointments and where the patient is not in a position to pay for a taxi; and if...
- Ministerial Expenditure
226. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department for the period 2007 to...
- Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
227. To ask the Minister for Health the further steps being taken to reduce the waiting times in the accident and emergency Departments Beaumont Hospital, Dublin [22052/13]
- Health Strategies
228. To ask the Minister for Health his views on research, carried out by the National Coalition for Vision Health in Ireland, which indicates that the 220,000 already suffering sight loss could...
- National Lottery Funding Applications
229. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to a service (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22064/13]
- Ambulance Service Provision
230. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the emergency call centres in counties Kerry and Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22069/13]
- Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
232. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) may expect to receive orthodontic treatment [22093/13]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
233. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an MRI scan [22094/13]
- Hospital Services
234. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be an orthopaedic surgeon at Kerry General Hospital in July and August [22095/13]
- Children in Care
236. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the C case, the number of girls in care in State care that were taken to Britain or elsewhere for an abortion following a court decision,...
- Care of the Elderly
237. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he continues to monitor activities at St Bridget's Nursing Home, Crooksling, County Dublin, with the objective of ensuring that the full...
- Crisis Pregnancy Services
238. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding crisis pregnancy agencies; the amount the State has given in funding to these agencies for each year from 2003 to date in 2013; the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Ministerial Expenditure
239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department...
- Road Network
240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if construction works are likely to commence on the N3 north of Kells to Cavan, the N59 Moycullen bypass and the N71 Bandon to Inishannon...
